The American Chopper meme is always topical on this. At least where I live, it's the Conservatives (no longer really the "Tories" of a generation ago, now they're a farther right team that's wearing the Tory party's skin as a suit) who brand anything to the left of hunting the poor for sport as "socialism" and therefore exactly the same as sending kulaks to the re-education camps.
So now they're going to blame the obese.
These things ARE linked, they are both symptoms of poverty.
This is ridiculous